Sad to say, many of the slightly less expensive morphs out there, there are poor examples, good examples and outstanding examples of each.
People just getting in to balls tend to buy whatever is cheapest, and then they produce large numbers of mid to poor quality babies, and the exceptional stuff is few and far between.
Take that big bee, that is to me an outstanding example of the morph, and I would gladly pay anywhere from half again to double the going rate for a snake like that. I saw an amazing bee at a show in December. Big female. 2000+ grams and she was nothing but yellow and white with pattern. Not a fleck of cream or brown anywhere but her pattern. Never seen one so breathtaking. The owner wanted $3000 for her. And I promise you if I had it, she'd have been mine. I don't care if two tables down there was a bigger female for half that, she SURE didn't look like that one!
Same thing with pastels. Sure I can pick up a baby pastel for under $100 all day long, some for under $75. But when I want a pastel, I want a NEON yellow pastel who is going to glow like a sun no matter how old it gets. If that means I'll spend $250 to $350 for said pastel, so be it.
Gale
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